Civil Rights Flashcards
What was brown vs board
Linda brown had to walk passed White schools to get to her school
Case sent to supreme Court and they won
Lead to law desegragating schools
Some didn’t listen
What wad the little Rock 9
9 black students who went to a white school and were attacked by a mob
President eisenhower sent bodyguards
First time president involved
What we’re sit ins and what did they lead to
Black people sat in white people’s seats and refused to move
126 city’s desegragated
What happened to freedom riders
Travelled into areas where they were still desegragated
Attacked by mobs and arrested by police
Kennedy had to stop the violence
the montgomary bus boycott
Started by Rosa parks
Bus profits fell significantly
Desegragation of buses 1956
What was formed to organise montgomary bus boycott and who was the leader
MIA
Martin Luther King
Which group believed in violent tactics and who was the leader
Nation on Islam
Malculm x
Negatives of violent tactics
Black people were blamed for riots
Slower pace of change
What happened in 1963
March to Washington
I have a dream
What act made it illegal to discriminate in housing and employment
Which act backed it up
1964 civil rights act
1968 civil rights act
What happened in 1965 and what act did it lead to
Voting rights marches
1965 voting rights act
